The Switch

This book is magnificent! I couldn't stop laughing while reading it, much to my husband's regret who was desperately trying to sleep and the fact that I kept re-reading the funny passages again and again didn't help at all! The way poor Radcliffe finds himself attracted to a young boy "Charles" and starts to wonder for his sexual preferences is incredibly hilarious. In a few words, the story goes as follows: The earl of Radcliff meets a yound couple, a brother named "Charles" and his sister "Beth" trying to escape from their uncle. Much to their dismay (!), he offers to escort them to London, settle them in his house and introduce them to the ton as his relatives so that Beth can find a husband to escape from her uncle's plans. Although Beth is a very attractive woman, he finds himself attracted to her brother, Charlie! Radcliff is shocked by his response, but when he finally admits to himself that he is indeed attracted to "him", he finds out that he is also attracted to Beth... only at certain times! Little does he know that the brother and sister are in fact twin sisters and keep switching places as Charlie and Beth. As if this is not enough, a blackmailer appears that threatens to reveal the twins' secret. How much longer can the twins keep their secret? Who is the vilain? Will Radcliff find out the truth before he loses his mind? Get the book and find that out!! I only regret that this book has been in my "to read list" for over a year and I only decided to read it last week. I will certainly not loose time again and go right away to order the other books of Mrs Sands! Don't make the same mistake with me if you haven't read this book. Go and get it right away!

This was a recommended choice ..., and I am so thrilled they were right. I love to be able to read a romance and laugh. Beth & Charlie (short for Charlotte) are twins running away from their greedy uncle who plans to marry them off to dirty old men for money - having practically run through any of their assets he could find already. They escape their uncle and decide that they will be less noticable as a boy and a girl instead of two twin girls. They are noticed by Lord Radcliff escaping, he escorts them to London and invites them to live with him while they find "Beth" a husband. The girls take turns switching roles of who is the boy and who is the girl. Every time Charlotte switches identities, it leaves Lord Radcliff wondering his sexual orientation. One moment Beth is a sister to him and the next she is everything he would have in a woman. At times, he is inexplicably turned on by Charlie and other times he is relieved that it must have been a figment of his imagination. His confusion is hilarious.READ IT!

This was my first Lynsay Sands read, and I'm now a fan for life. It was just fabulous. The author is LOL funny. She is to historicals what Susan Elizabeth Phillips is to contemporaries. Thank you, Lynsay!

This is my all time favourite! After reading many novels of similar plotting, "The Switch" is a real original. I loved the humor and couldn't help laughing out loud and hard. The characters are so well drawn and Charles/Charlotte is just the best heroine. There is so much in this story that one must feel blessed to have sampled it. The best feature of this novel is the affections Lord Radcliffe feels for Charlie when in her disguise as a boy. Radcliffe's confusion of his own sexual preferance is something to laugh at. The humour and wit and mishaps I so thoroughly enjoyed. It is entertaining when these two characters are thrown together, especially when Charlie plays "Charles". From the scene where Radcliffe wakes to find Charles tangled in his arms I could not put it down. This is a must read again and again!

This is my first Lyndsay Sands book but certainly not the last. This book is definately an ORIGINAL! Although I have read books where one twin disguises herself as a boy, never where the hero falls in love with her when she was still a "boy". The confusion that Radcliffe suffers throughout the story could only be described as pure, unadulterated, HILARIOUS torment! While the story seemed a bit improbable, nothing could detract from the FUN of seeing poor Radcliffe deal with his conflicting urges whenever Charlie flipped back and forth between "Charles" and her impersonation of her sister, Elizabeth. I especially liked the scene where he wakes up cuddling "Charles" and his subsequent panicked reaction. Of course, when Radcliffe takes "Charles" to a brothel in order to make a man out of her. . . I laughed so hard I cried! GREAT ENTERTAINMENT!!!